Change

Good afternoon teachers and students, "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" The concluding words of Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, illustrate our reluctance to move beyond the past. However, the novel urges us to accept change, as our rejection will lead to a failure to deal with life. We also need to initiate change in order to attain contentment as suggested by Miroslav Holub's "The Door" and …

…Gatsby yearns for at the beginning of the novel fades connoting disillusionment. Out of the three texts, The Great Gatsby best dealt with the concept of change as it portrays change most realistically, accepting that change can be futile, while the other texts do not. It effectively warns us that although to dream like Gatsby is good, we can only achieve the dream if we accept change, otherwise our dream slips further away from us.